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Dead Megatron
17:53 / 26.01.06
Either way, it's cool, and it's a quote...
 
 
Dead Megatron
18:03 / 26.01.06
"I shall hear in Heaven"

Bethoven's last words (according to some). I sure hope the poor fella was right
 
 
Mistoffelees
09:27 / 27.01.06
offtopic

It´s Mozart´s 250th birthday today, btw.

Happy Birthday Wolfgang!

/offtopic
 
 
Mistoffelees
18:55 / 29.01.06



Mistranslated Subtitles
 
 
Hieronymus
02:01 / 30.01.06
Quite possibly the greatest bit of wisdom ever put down by Uncle Leonard. I want this etched somewhere eternally.

"So come my friends... be not afraid. We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. And in love we disappear"
 
 
Charlie's Horse
20:00 / 30.01.06
A barrel of petrol is 42 gallons, but such a container does not actually exist.

- Zen Koan in my Physics Textbook

The mural says: Everything we have tried has failed, all our ideologies have proven lethal. And the mural says: We must try again and again and again, try forever, not until we get it right, we are incapable of getting it right, we cannot get it right, we are animals, but we are animals with dreams and perfume and fine teeth to tear asunder choice meats, we will never eat straw like the ox, we will never enter the walls of Salvation and wander the city of Paradise. But we will go toward it and we will fail and we will love and we will kill and we will take the color from the sky, the kiss from her dead lips, the breast from the cold mouth of the dead baby, we will. That is it, we will. And whosoever promises us Paradise, that is the traitor. Whosoever offers us Salvation, that is the killer in our midst.

Killing the Buddha - Isaiah
 
 
Mistoffelees
18:06 / 23.02.06
Oh, to be a Moomin and to dance in the waves while the sun gets up!
 
 
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17:15 / 02.03.06
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Bill Watterson
 
 
matthew.
17:19 / 02.03.06
Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love
-Albert Einstein
 
 
enrieb
20:47 / 03.03.06
Never argue with idiots. They will only drag you down to their level, then overwhelm you with their experience.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
10:56 / 04.03.06
"Happiness writes white" - Henri de Montherlant
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
05:35 / 20.03.06
Popped into my head back of this thread.

"Every woman loves a fascist," Sylvia Plath.
 
 
Mistoffelees
10:21 / 20.03.06
"It´s men like you that give perversion a bad name."
 
 
Saturn's nod
10:49 / 20.03.06
Excerpt from "The People Yes" by Carl Sandburg

The people yes
The people will live on.
The learning and blundering people will live on.
They will be tricked and sold and again sold
And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds,
The people so peculiar in renewal and comeback,
You can't laugh off their capacity to take it.
The mammoth rests between his cyclonic dramas.

The people so often sleepy, weary, enigmatic,
is a vast huddle with many units saying:
"I earn my living.
I make enough to get by
and it takes all my time.
If I had more time
I could do more for myself
and maybe for others.
I could read and study
and talk things over
and find out about things.
It takes time.
I wish I had the time."

The people is a tragic and comic two-face: hero and hoodlum:
phantom and gorilla twisting to moan with a gargoyle mouth:
"They buy me and sell me...it's a game...sometime I'll
break loose..."

...

This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
There are men who can't be bought.
The fireborn are at home in fire.
The stars make no noise,
You can't hinder the wind from blowing.
Time is a great teacher.
Who can live without hope?

In the darkness with a great bundle of grief
the people march.
In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people
march:
"Where to? what next?"


Read with great emotion by Bruce Sterling at the conclusion of his SXSW 2006 speech (Audio MP3.)

In which he also says, "When you actually ignore reality for years on end, the payback is a bitch brother! ... We're seeing just frantic collisions of fundamentalist delusion with objective reality... We're on a kind of slider bar between the unthinkable and the unimaginable now, between the grim meathook future and the bright green future. There are ways out of this situation; there are actual ways to move the slider bar from one side to the other, except that we haven't invented the words for them yet." (As transcribed by Alex Steffen.)
 
 
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05:44 / 23.03.06
The word gen means "illusion" or "apparition." In India, a man who uses conjury is called a genjutsushi ("a master of illusion technique".) everything in this world is but a marionette show. Thus we use the word gen.

From Hagakure, by Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
 
 
robertk
17:04 / 24.03.06
Historical note: At the end of the 20th century when this was written, "cool" was an epithet of approval particularly among young, indicating trendiness, quality, or appropriateness.

from a site called "Cool URIs don't change"
 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:28 / 24.03.06
You know which language genjutsushi's from, Alchemy?
 
 
Daemon est Deus Inversus
01:51 / 05.04.06
"When you teach a child to read and write, he or she will be able to pass a literacy test."- George Herbert Walker Bush
 
 
Daemon est Deus Inversus
01:53 / 05.04.06
"The Divine Marquis really got to the bottom of things."-
Swinburne on D.A.F. Sade in a letter to a friend.
 
 
Mistoffelees
14:50 / 07.10.06
"I can hear Stan Lee spinning in his grave and he´s not even dead yet."

From the online comic Questionable Content.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
15:14 / 07.10.06
"For years, people in authority have been peddling the illusion of 'civilisation'. The definition of a civilised society is that it is not starving. Take Paris, cut off its electricity and water, and empty the supermarkets. In three days people will be murdering each other and eating the corpses. The notion of civilisation is the biggest confidence trick in the world."

- Marjane Satrapi
 
 
Mistoffelees
08:48 / 09.10.06
On another board, one poster answers the thread´s topic "Does anyone here actually believe that Jesus is coming?" thus:

I've heard he's already come back, but the US government captured him, froze him in liquid nitrogen, and are currently working on extracting his divine powers to make into weapons... these are just rumors, of course.

Reminds me of something, hm...
 
 
bjacques
14:41 / 11.10.06
Happiness is the maximum agreement between reality and desire - Joseph Stalin
 
 
---
06:28 / 30.10.06
"Sometimes you gotta go away in order to come back."

- Robert De Niro, in the film 15 Minutes.
 
 
Triplets
11:46 / 29.11.06
"One of the nice things about looking at a bear is that you know it spends 100 per cent of every minute of every day being a bear. It doesn't strive to become a better bear. It doesn't go to sleep thinking, "I wasn't really a very good bear today". They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment".

Stephen Fry, on bears.

Not only is it a nice musing I love it for the elegant "They are just 100% bear".
 
 
Dutch
21:46 / 29.11.06
From the movie waking life:

"The quest is to be liberated from the negative, which is our own will to nothingness. Once having said yes to the instant, the affirmation is contagious,it bursts into a chain of affirmations that knows no limit. To say yes to one instant, is to say yes to all of existence..."
 
 
Slate
00:30 / 30.11.06
"YOUR EMOTIONS ARE OF NO CONSEQUENCE"

The Borg.
 
 
electric monk
15:35 / 05.12.06
"If I am not I, who will be?"

Henry David Thoreau - Journal, 9 August 1841
 
 
Mistoffelees
19:53 / 06.12.06
I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.
--Steven Seagal
 
 
Dead Megatron
19:49 / 16.12.06
"I guess this new-century music is soooo last-century now"

Paraphasing a IRL friend o'mine, speaking via e-mail. Smile-inducing irony?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
20:25 / 10.01.07
Nice Pete: And do you know what I think of women?

I think that women are clear, like a horrible toy with no color in the plastic.

If they talk, it is the sound of glass breaking and birds burning in a shoebox.


Achewood ftw.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
17:28 / 11.01.07
Not a quote by anybody famous but my favourite this week from a co-worker regarding another co-worker's fuck-uppery:

"There's no 'I' in team, but there's 'YOU' in douchebag."
 
 
nicky_fingaz
15:12 / 13.02.07
Now this is really pissing me off to no end!
- David Lo Pan, Big Trouble In Little China

I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum.
-Rowdy Roddy Piper, They Live
 
 
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04:47 / 22.03.07
Try to remember.

Grant Morrison - The Invisibles.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
05:59 / 22.03.07
Barbarella:

"A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming."

"You mean they could still be living in a primitive state of neurotic irresponsibility?"
 
  

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